Originally Posted by
Trekkfugl
Thank you, 13901 for stopping by and leaving a comment. The name Unalaska sounds so un-Alaska, but it is very much Alaska. While the airport code is DUT for Dutch Harbor, each car on the ferry had a destination card on the dashboard, visible through the windshield, and the card in the cars with destination Dutch Harbor said "UNA".
I still remember vividly your report of the trip to Kashgar and Xinjiang of a fwew years ago, one of the most amazing TR's I've read on here!
The word "Alaska" is derived from an Aleut word
alaxsxaq or "mainland," which the Russian slavers changed to "Alyeska." The Aleut word for the village (various spellings) is Ounalashka.
Originally Posted by
Trekkfugl
Back then the church was a free-standing building, now it is surrounded by other buildings and - unfortunately - also some waste lying around, similar to what I saw in Barrow.
It's not like there's a landfill you can drive the stuff to. And stuff takes a LONG time to decay in the local climates. It's a problem all across Alaska.